The Marković affair was a political scandal in France in 1968 that followed a violent death of Stevan Marković, a friend and bodyguard of actor Alain Delon. Marković had sexually-explicit photos of what was believed to be Claude Pompidou, wife of French President Georges Pompidou. The press speculated Delon was involved. Delon's longtime friend François Marcantoni was arrested for a year, being bailed out in 1969. The affair was never solved, having been dismissed in 1973 for lack of evidence. Marković's murder is still unsolved. In a further development, sexually-explicit photos, allegedly of Claude Pompidou, Pompidou's wife, were found in Marković's car after his death. A former police chief, Lucien Aimé-Blanc, who was involved in obtaining the photos, stated that they had been planted by established Gaullist clans opposed to Pompidou. Their veracity was subsequently challenged. Life and death of Stevan Marković Marković was born on 10 May 1937 in Belgrade. In the 1950s, Marković and his friend Milos Milos (Miloš Milošević) were involved in streetfighting in Belgrade. They met Delon, then a young movie star, who was making a film in Belgrade in co-production with Yugoslavian studios. Delon first employed Milos Milos and later Marković as his bodyguard. Marković was a friend with Serbian gangster Nikola Milinković and walked in the first column of the convoy of Nikola's burial. A heavy gambler who was often suspected of cheating, Marković was known for his high-class parties at which it was alleged he would set up secret cameras throughout the house, especially in the bedrooms. He thus collected many compromising photos of the guests that could have damaged their social status. He approached several newspapers trying to sell them. Surprisingly, some of the photographs would be alleged to be directly targeting Delon and Marcantoni themselves. However, the most important photos that Marković supposedly possessed were scandalous shots of Pompidou's wife. That was a major concern to Pompidou, who was preparing to run for president. On 1 October 1968, Marković's body was found in a public dump in the village of Élancourt, Yvelines, west of Paris. His murder is still unsolved. Involvement of Alain Delon and François Marcantoni It was alleged that Delon became acquainted with "some highly dubious French gangland characters" and was a close friend of François Marcantoni. When Delon's bodyguard Marković mysteriously died, Marcantoni and Delon came under suspicion in part because of a letter written by Marković to